The Importance of Cultural Knowledge in Education

I think children can awaken their critical faculties very early because of course when you learn to grow up in if you're in a good family. You better be learning to question at the same time because your own parents might make some very bad arguments. My own father was a racist from the Deep South so while I certainly loved my parents and I learned certain fixed points from them I also quickly learned that I better be questioning the arguments that they gave me.